WORLD HERITAGE KAKAMEGA PROJECT

Name: WORLD HERITAGE KAKAMEGA PROJECT
Start: 2022-01-01
End: 2028-12-31
Location: Kakamega, Kenya

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

GVDA is a leading International non-profit making organization established in Kenya in 1997 to build partnership by empowering young leaders to advance community development and strengthen multicultural understanding, increase cooperation between Kenyan communities and people living in developed world through a range of development programs;

GVDA seeks to improve international and cross-cultural understanding by providing opportunities for international volunteers to live alongside, learn from and share skills with Kenya communities.

GVDA programmes combines, short group, mid , internship long term International volunteer positions, community immersion, cross-cultural learning, ecotourism, community tourism, adventure and community services of people of all ages.

💼 What the programme involves

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The volunteers will be expected to participate in:
1) Tree Nursery caring/ Tree Nursery Planting, filling the gap in the forest
2) Environmental Education in Schools and within the local Luhya communities.
3) Food security education
4) Bio diversity monitoring
5) Counting and noting the different species of birds
6) Feeding the colobus monkey and other species of monkeys.
7) Community capacity building.
8) Butterfly farm
9) Work in the snake park farm.
Other activities include Agro-forestry and nursery management/ grafting, planting, making a bee hive (langstroth and Kenya top bar hive)

🏠 Accommodation on site

At a host family. Please note that you will share the typical living conditions of a Kenyan family. There will be electricity, but no shower and pipe water/taps at the accommodation. Volunteers will be using buckets for bathing. Water will be boiled for drinking purposes and those who prefer can buy bottled water.

📍 About the location

Kakamega forest is located in Western Kenya.

🎒 Leisure activities

Kakamega rainforest has over 360 species of birds, 380 species of plants, 400 species of butterflies, 7 species of primates. Kakamega forest plants, 80% are of highly medicinal plants that traditionally local people use them to cure Malaria, prostate cancer, common cold and many others. Kakamega forest is an Ornithologist's dream where many different rare birds’ species are found including Great blue turaco, Blue headed bee-eater, Turners Eremomela, Yellow bellied wattle-eye, African shrike-flycatcher, Petit's cuckoo-shrike and many others. Mammals of Kakamega forest Includes Primates, Bushbuck, Red and blue Duikers, Bush pigs, Porcupines and at night Flying squirrels, Hammer Headed fruit bats, Tree pangolins, poto, Mongoose along the rivers Clawless otter.

⚠️ Requirements

Special requirements: No particular expertise or skills required. Participants should have a positive attitude, be ready to adopt and enjoy simple living conditions, and be flexible and patient.

🤝 Meeting point

You will be met by our representative at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi from where you are transferred to the accommodations in Nairobi itself. Volunteers who will be already in Kenya or arriving overland would need to give us their contact details so that the pickup can be arranged from a specific location.

ℹ️ Additional information

200 Euros per month or 600 Euros per 3 months. The program will run for a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 6 months. Orientation meeting will take place in Nairobi before proceeding to the project.

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